In the 2000s and 2010s, Paramount and Blumhouse teamed up for six Paranormal Activity movies that brought found footage scares to a whole new generation. The last of those six films was Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension in 2015, but at CineEurope 2019 in Barcelona, it was announced that Paramount and Blumhouse are returning to the Paranormal Activity franchise with a new installment.
According to Deadline, at Paramount's showcase in CineEurope, Studio Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos announced that a new Paranormal Activity is in the works, telling the crowd, “We are partnering with uber horror producer Jason Blum to bring a new installment of Paranormal Activity.”
No further details are known at this time, including whether or not the "new installment" will be a film sequel to The Ghost Dimension, a spinoff film like Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, or some other type of project altogether.
Since the first film's wide theatrical release in 2009, the Paranormal Activity franchise has been a lucrative one for Paramount and Blumhouse, with each film's domestic box office gross surpassing its production budget, particularly Oren Peli's first film, which brought in more than $107 million domestically on an estimated production budget of $15,000 (according to Box Office Mojo).
We'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are announced. In the meantime, what would you like to see in a new Paranormal Activity?
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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